By The Patriot Ledger staff
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A 15-year-old Randolph High School student and a 16-year-old Boston youth will be tried as adults in the killing of a Somalian immigrant in June.Eloy Antonio Sierra, 4 Garren Terrace, and Mwase Potts, 16, of 98 West Newton St. in the South End, were arraigned yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of murder, armed assault with intent to murder and carrying a gun without a license. They pleaded innocent and were ordered held without bail.
Police said that Abdirauf Abdullahi, 19, and a friend were walking through a South End park on the night of June 25 when Sierra allegedly opened fire. Potts allegedly was standing with Sierra when the shooting occurred.
Sierra and Potts were arrested shortly after the murder.
A spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said state law requires murder defendants over 14 to be tried as adults.
Sierra was a freshman at Randolph High School. Earlier this year, he had showed up at school with a gunshot wound to the arm.
Abdullahi had just graduated from Concord-Carlisle Regional High School. He had attended under the METCO program, which enrolls Boston students in suburban schools.
He had been accepted to the University of Charleston in West Virginia. Abdullahi’s family had fled civil war in Somalia.
Source: Patriot Ledger, Oct. 11, 2006